By: Jessie Liang
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is better than the National basketball Association (NBA), and here are the facts to prove it.
There has always been talk about basketball in the U.S.A.. It is an extremely popular sport since 1891, when a physical educator and innovator invented the game of throwing balls into peach baskets for his students to get warm in the winter, but the basketball game has been different over time since the WNBA made its first appearance.
The NBA is a world-famous basketball association called the National Basketball Association, the NBA goes on tours, and many matches. Some of these players include Nikola Jokic, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and Stephen Curry etc.
Similarly, the WNBA is the basketball association for women, it stands for The Women’s National Basketball Association. Though compared to the NBA the WNBA has fewer teams and is less structured.
Firstly, WNBA was founded 47 years later than the NBA in 1949, and people back then needed experience and technique and 47 years is a huge amount of time for that to happen, and WNBA needs way more support while all the attention is on the NBA.
Next, the WNBAhas much better sportsmanship and dedication to basketball, some players are moms, community helpers and even still students while playing on court. Whilst the NBA’s judges try to sort out the drama on court, the WNBA’S just keep it brief and mostly avoid arguing.
Lastly is the spirit, teamwork, and passion for and of the game. But that is slowly fading in the NBA but still obvious in WNBA. The teamwork and the laughter show it all. The NBA is forgetting the importance of enjoying the game. NBA members are starting to become greedy and value themselves and their money more than the whole team together and having fun and it might be getting worse. The pay for each of the NBA players gets an approximate of $925,258 for working at least 3 years and the WNBA is $853,117 less than the NBA and they deserve more!
The WNBA players are improving themselves, and their teams are always changing for the better.
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